Infamous Motorized La-Z-Boy Hits eBay

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Infamous Motorized La-Z-Boy Hits eBay

The case of Minnesota's motorized La-Z-Boy Lounger just keeps getting stranger, with the cops deciding to give you a chance to put the machine in your driveway.

Dennis LeRoy Anderson, 62, rigged his La-Z-Boy with an 8-horsepower lawnmower engine. Then he installed a stereo, headlights and a cup holder before slapping a "Hell yeah it's fast" sticker on the back. The inventive fellow from Proctor, Minnesota, liked to drive it to local bars to watch Vikings football games. So far, so good. But Anderson was nabbed for drunk driving in his La-Z-Boy on Aug. 31, 2008, after hitting a parked car.

SmokingGun.com has the details, including a police report that says Anderson told police he left the Keyboard Lounge after consuming eight or nine beers. Prosecutors say Anderson's blood alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit of 0.08.

The wheels of justice move slowly, but at least Anderson's incredibly tacky, yet oddly awesome, chair will move again. Anderson pleaded guilty on Oct. 22 to DWI and according to the Duluth News-Tribune was sentenced to 180 days in jail. He had to forfeit his beloved La-Z-Boy, which the police listed on eBay today.

"Under the state legislature forfeiture law, I either have to keep it for official police business, which I'm not going to do, or auction it off," Walter Wobig, chief of police in Proctor, told Wired.com. "So I thought, you know what, let me put it up on eBay, if someone wants to give it to Mr. Anderson they can."

Last we checked, the chief was still working on the eBay listing. We'll provide a link once the auction's live.

UPDATE: 6:55 p.m. Auction is live, and as of this moment the bidding is up to $540, even though "the transmission is sloppy." Good luck.